Python barcode decoding

[Mike Driscoll]

On Oct 24, 12:05 pm, Robocop <btha... at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know of any decent (open source or commercial) python
> barcode recognition tools or libraries.  I need to read barcodes from
> pdfs or images, so it will involve some OCR algorithm.  I also only
> need to read the code 93 symbology, so it doesn't have to be very
> fancy.  The most important thing to me is that it outputs in some
> python friendly way, or ideally that it is written in python.  Any
> tips would be great!

The closest thing I've heard of is the bar code stuff in reportlab.
This post talks a little about it:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-February/024893.html

And here's the official Reportlab site link: http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html

Mike